Parks Maintenance Worker

Overview

Help ensure the efficient operation, maintenance and repair of the City's park system.

• Maintain, install, repair, and replace landscaping and turf in City parks, rights‑of‑way, roadway medians, and other municipal facilities.
• Assist with the application of fertilizer, herbicide, and pesticide.
• Operate equipment such as mowers, weed eaters, tractors, backhoes, front‑end loaders, and dump trucks in the performance of tasks.
• Maintain athletic fields and mark competition boundaries and lines on sports fields.
• Paint, repair, and maintain park equipment, furniture, facilities, and playground components.
• Install and maintain signs, water lines, sewer lines, plumbing fixtures, irrigation systems, electrical fixtures, lights, plugs, cabling, and other park or municipal infrastructure.
• Clean work sites, restrooms, and other park or public facilities.
• Inspect, clean, and maintain equipment and tools in safe operating condition.
• Ensure the safe operating conditions of the work site, i.e., traffic hazards, equipment operation, required barricades, road, and site areas.
• Perform routine inspections of assigned areas; identify and make necessary repairs and correct hazardous conditions.
• Complete service/work orders and log completed daily maintenance.
• Work on‑call as assigned, and aid other City departments as assigned. Serve on call‑out crew as needed.
• Assist with setup, teardown, and cleanup for special events and meetings.
• Perform any other related duties as required or assigned.

High school or GED, plus specialized schooling and/or on‑the‑job education in a specific skill area (e.g., data processing, clerical/administrative, equipment operation, etc.) plus 12 to 18 months related experience and/or training, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Must possess a valid Class C driver's license when hired.

Must pass a pre‑employment drug screen, criminal background check, and MVR check.

Basic skill in Word Processing/Typing, use of machines, equipment, and/or computers.

Regular use of complex machines and equipment (desktop/laptop computer and software, road and production machines and equipment, driver's license/​CDL, etc.).

Outside or inside working environment, wherein there are potentially hazardous working conditions and life‑threatening situations exist (fire, chemicals, electrical sources, heights, dangerous people, etc.) all the time per job duties and responsibilities. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the functions of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to work near moving mechanical parts, outdoor weather conditions; occasionally exposed to work in high, precarious places, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

Highly repetitive, highly physical. This work requires the concentrated and non‑diversified physical demands of the employee. The employee must regularly stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds; frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds;

regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds; continuously lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.